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Also Known As Matthias de Lobel • Matthaeus Lobelius
Born 1538 • Lille • France
Died March 3, 1616 (aged 78) • London • England
Notable Works “Stirpium adversaria nova”

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Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Mirbel, Charles-François Brisseau de
Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel
French botanist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
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Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet
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Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
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Adolf Engler
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George Engelmann
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John Bachman
American naturalist and minister
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al-Dīnawarī
astronomer, botanist, and historian
Dillenius, detail from an engraving by James Heath after an original portrait by an unknown artist
Johann Jakob Dillenius
German botanist
Portrait of French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, shown in formal 18th-century attire with a white wig and ruffled cravat, looking slightly to his left.
Antoine Lavoisier
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Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard
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Buffon, engraving by C. Baron after Drouais, 1761.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon
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Jeanne Baret
Jeanne Baret
French botanist and explorer
Title page of Flora Boreali-Americana by Andre Michaux (1746-1802), printed in 1803,
André Michaux
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Image of an engraving of the 16th century botanist Carolus Clusius.
Carolus Clusius
French botanist

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